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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03
The Poet ssWhtlch-e-Yey.'

[Catherine Cole in the New Orleans Picayune.l
One afternoon with a young friend) went
to an cat home' in a charming house by
Hyde Park. We came upon little group
of men and women, with Grace Hawthorne
in the center. She was divinely dressed in
black lace gown, black lace wrap trimmed
with purple passementerie, and poke bon
net of old rose Grape. She had book in
her hand and her fine face was working,
"Oh, you should have come sooner" said G.
P. Willis, putting his arm around my small
American rosebud and taking her over to be
presented to ''Oscar's'' mamma. Miss Haw-
thorne has had US all crying as she read
'Whitch-e-yey' to US. He is very great; you
must be proud of him-still living I be-
lievea''
Well, stumbled and mumbled and finally
said fatty didn't know, thinking all the
while who in the name of all the muses.
could ''Whitch-e-yey'' be. Wills, tremen-
dousIy fine looking and mighty good compa-
ny, went back to Miss Hawthorne, whom he
had taken up and for whom he is going to
rewrite her play, the Empress Josephine. :"
He opened dainty volume bound in plain
Russian leather and having quaint old red
lettered text with marginal illuminations and
pictures and began to read an exquisite poem
called ''Noon." We stood around in stained
glass attitudes and listened. He read well
and the poem was lovely, and his refined and
cultured listeners missed not wcrd It was
one Of his own that had never been pub
ished. and when he had finished with a
courtly bow he bent his gray head and placed
the precious book in his hostess hand.
forgot to say that had discovered that the
poets name whose poem had made them all
weep was the grand old name of Whittier!
4 olI h. IL, ~o1l TTa1
it any wonder I did not know when they
called him "Whitch-e yey?n
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03
Saturday, December 3, 1887
PRISON DIsCIPLINE.

The warden of the California State prison
was recently accused of cruelty for prisoners
under his charge, but was acquitted. Desir-
ing to find out whether he had been more
cruel than other wardens he sent a circular to
United States containing questions as to the
methods of punishment resorted to in these
institutions in the case of refractory convicts.
The answers to his questions are inter
esting. Most of the wardens believe in soli-
tary confinement. Their idea is that the
prisoner should be placed in secluded cell,
darkened, and where he will have no oppor-
tunity to communicate with his companions
If this is not effective he should be hand
cuffed in a way that would not in8ict suffer-
ing, but would make him thoroughly uncom-
Portable, and confined until he is subdued.
The warden of the Illinois State prison at
Joliet states that when he wishes to punish
prisoner severely he compels him to stand
eighteen hours out of the twenty -four hand
cuffed to the door, being let down at inter
walls of FIVE hours for twenty minutes at a
time. The warden of the United States pen
itentiary in Montana places his prisoners in
keeps them awake with the aid of galeanic
battery In about one-third of the prisons
corporal punishment is practised. In the
Colorado penitentiary they do not whip the
men, but their instrument of torture is G
three quarter inch hose with one quarter
inch nozzle. A stream of water is played on
the convict's face until he thinks he has had
enough, or the prison physician does. In
the other prisons q strap or paddle is used.
Mr.. Meres of the Virginia penitentiary pre-,
scribes this punishment for fractions prison
ers: ''Stripes, not to exceed thirty nine, ball
aud chain, dungeon with bread and water.''
It is hard work for rulers of prisons to get
along sometimes without doing things which
look cruel. A vicious convict is not very
pleasant person to deal with, and his wrath
cannot always be turned way with soft
words. But it is doubtless true that there is
still much unnecessary cruelty in some of the
prisons of this country.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03
LEPROsY IN EUROPE.
The Awful Disease Being Gradually
Propagaced by Chinese Emigrants.
lFrom the St. James Budget.l

The Awful Disease Being Gradually
Propagated by Chinese Emigrants.
[From the st. James Budgetl
The warning voice uttered by the rector of
Greatham in the Times as to the spread of
leprosy brings US face to face with a terrible
danger, as little understood or experienced
by Engliahmen as is the black death or the
sweating sickness. To most of US leprosy is
happily only a name, associated mainly with
scriptural incidents which seem scarcely
more remote from ourselves than the disease
itself. Yet there can be no doubt that this
malady, one of the most hideous that afflicts
mankind, is actually among US at this mo-
mert, that its tendency is to keep firm
foothold wherever it shows itself, and that it
is constantly widening the area of its dread
full influence.
According to Archdeacon Wright the dis
ease is being spread all over the world by
Chinese emigrants. They have carried it to
California, New Brunswick, the Cape of
Good Hope and the Sandwich Islands, where
it was previously unknown; and either they
have brought it into Europe themselves or it
has been brought by Europeans who have
been in contact with them. All the special
lists in skin disease in Paris are said to have
lepers among their patients-soldiers, sailors,
merchants, sisters of charity, missionaries
and others. Epidemics of Ieprosy have
broken out in more than one of the provinces
of Spain, the disease having been brought
home by sailors. There are lepers in the
hospitals of London, Dublin and Glasgow,
and Archdeacon Wright mentions, on au-
thority he does not doubt, that week or
two ago there was case of leprosy in an
English village In fact the two points to
be borne in mind are themselves sufficiently
suggestive of grounds for alarm, the first be-
ing that the disease itself has of late years
increased in activity, and the second that in
more or less degree it is to be found all over
the world. Amy accidental circumstances
which might develop it's virulence would at
once produce a world wide epidemic. The
train is laid and needs only to be fired.
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to go haying with Maud. He grew almost
Maudlin over it and wished he could marry
her. But he soon reflected that his social
position would not permit it and kept on his
way. The next day when he opened court
he was very moody, and the lawyers laughed
and winked at each other occasionally as
they caught him humming the air of the old
love song, Swinging in the Lane"
The judge married a wealthy, d-hearted
lady, who moved in the first circles, and who
only accepted him because she thought it
would read well in the society column of the
home paper to be spoken of as "Mrs. Judge
Browne"
Sometimes when the judge was taking a
snifter of old rye in his study, after the ard
uous labors of the day, he wished Maud
could step in with cup of that meadow
spring water to mix with it.
Maud got married too, after waiting in
vain for another judge to come riding by.
She married the hired man in a hickory
SKIRT, whom the judge saw leaning on his
seythe in another part of the field, eyeing
them jealously. But she too was unhappy,
for she couldn't help thinking how different
her life might have been as wife of the
judge. And when she fell into a row with
her husband she used to say:
III I hadn't married you and stuck in this pen
I'D been better off, for might er had Ben'
Which was the judges front name.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03
OVERCOAq'S and ULSTERS

The time to wrap closer, to economic in
body heat is here. 1t pays to 'bundle up,''
to look we'll, and to be weller. Coming at
once to the point, we have Overcoats and
Ulsters to seIl-n airy nothings of gauze-
like texture, with which the wind makes
merry to the chilling and cracking of the
body, but Goats, real winter bucklers and
by tailors as custom tailors make. The only
difference is in price-ours one-half less.
The Schnabel Coat is the best in the field.
Made of Blue Chinchilia, extra soft nap,
body lining all silk, silk sleeve lining, edges
piped with velvet, silk velvet collar. Ele-
CANT. Price $50.
Young Mems Blue, Black and Brown Ker-
seys. Short lengths. The ruling hobby,
and its nobby. Wool lining, collar of vel
vet, or like the coat. Nice finish at all
points. Your coat. Price $50, $29 and $25.
An Ulster. Four inches longer than the
ordinary Ulster. Extra wide collar, muf
pockets, wool lining. A giant among coats.
Lasts for years. Price $40, $22, $25 and $2s.
Other Overcoats. A Seal Brown Kersey
for $12. A Blue Elysian sig. An Oxford
Mix, very stylish, for $12. A Moscow Bea-
yer $40. Elysian and Chinchi1la Beavers for
$15. Blue, Black, Brown Beavers. rough or
smooth, ss2O to $50. All coats range from
$6.50 to $40.
listers, dozen styles and prices, any
size, any color, from So. so to $50.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

To make counter room for
Christmas goods we have re-
duced prices of Dress Goods.
Pattern dresses for So. so, form
erly from $3.50 to SIS. 81
inch Dress Goods for soc yard,
formerly 75c. Stylish goods for
20 and 371ac, formerly size
and soc, &c.
Bargains in Black Dress
Goods, all wool fabrics, for 37H,
so, 81 and, 75c yard. We
have never before shown such
merchandise for the money.
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VOL. LV.
9rB 9nnds.
Xmas is CODlilg.
Howe B StGtSOl
9rp 0nnds.

are here with most of their
Xmas stock on hand and nearly
ready for sale. We are display
ing many Holiday goods on our
counters this week, preparatory
to a general opening next week.
We have received a large, direct
importation of Lcdies' and
Gents Linen Handkerchiefs,
which we shall sell at prices that
WILL sASTONISH CLOSE
BUYERS. We offer a special
bargain in Ladies Pure Linen
White Hemstitched Initial
Handkerchiefs at 12Hc each.
Also Hemstitched fancy bor-
ders for S, 81, 10, 12Hc each.
Embroidered Handkerchiefs
from I2hc to So each. Gents
Handkerchiefs from S to soc.
Special values at 1oc, 12H, II,
20 and 25c each. Ladies and
Gents Silk Handkerchiefs and
Muflers at the same low prices,
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

Some time ago the Memphis Avalanche
announced that the time had come for the
South to be represented on the national ticket
this year. Having waited for the response
of its contemporaries, it now declares that
the idea is favorably received by several
leading Democratic journals in the North
and East, and is almost universally indorsed
by the southern press. Now the Avalanche
insists that the South must make no mild
suggestion, but demand. Sectional hate,
says the Memphis paper, no longer exists, ex-
cept among few individuals who continue
to preach it for selfish purposes. But, in Or
der to make sure of this, we must have q
direct test, and the only certain test is to put
. southern man on the ticket
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

When Pennsylvania gets through examin-
ing the problem of technical education some
valuable results may be expected. AS author
ized by the last legislature, the governor has
just appointed commission to take the en-
tire subject into consideration and report
what ought to be done. The scope of the
commissions duties is ample. It includes
an examination of the extent to which in
dustrial education is now carried on in diff
ferent. localities; study of the best methods
of promoting and maintaining it; and an in
quiry as to how far it is possible or desirable
to incorporate it into the existing system of
public instruction. This is precisely the
sort of information which is now most needed
on this subject.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

A drive in so dozen all linen
Napkins, full selvedge, heavy
weight, at 81 per dozen. We
have extra value in Linen Ia
BILE Sets, Chenille and Plush
Table Cloths, Cardinal T. Red
Cloths, &c.
Ladies Cashmere Hose in
81, 9 and 91a sizes, in Navy,
Seal and Wine, at 3oc pair !;
usual price soc.
Good time to buy Cotton
Cloths, as prices are advancing.
We are we'll stocked in all
widths of Brown and Bleached
goods.
YYNVXYH q CTTST00AY
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03
Maud Muller.
NA0 0AA 4AA AAAACAa
from the Texas Siftings.

From the TeXaS Slftlngs.I
Maud Muller, as Whittier drew her, was q
comely young woman in a ragged hat and
brier-torn dress, innocent as to stockings and
shoes, who assisted her father in the busy
hay season, hired help being costly.
This was certainly commendable in Maud,
though as she paused in her work and glanced
to the far off town, she wished that her lot
had not been a meadow lot. She sighed to
be a lady clerk in ninety-nine cent store in
the city, and wondered if the life of fe-
male book canvasser was so very hard after
all.
While she was thus musing the judge, who
had been to town to file ''stay" in the case
of wealthy citizen who was lowering on the
confines of Sing Sing, came riding down the
road in his gig. He halted beside the
brown-hued maiden and asked her to fetch
him cup of water from the spring. This
she did, and blushing deeply as she remem-
bered that her shoes and stockings were up
to the house, handed it to the judge, who
had descended from his gig and gallantly re-
marked:
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Hours 10 to IL, to and 2 to 8.
GLAIRVOYANCE.

MRS. J. J. CLARK, Business, Test and Healing
Medium 228 GROWN STREET, convinces all who
visit her that she is genuine medium. Her veget-
able curatives, compounded by herself, have
surprising control over disease. Hours to IL a. m,
2to p. m. and evenings. Diagnosing by lock Of
hair by letter. S. oc4
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03
"a sweeter draught
Etrnr7 a fairar hand VAS 0avaF nUaffad '

Maud courtesied and said she was consid-
cred pretty fair hand in the bayfield,,
thank you.
The Judge fingered awhile, talking about
the weather, the Boulanger episode, the anti
poverty movement, the chances of his re-
election, etc., to which she simply replied,
'sYes, SIR" sfTee-he," or something like that.
which led him to believe that she was a very
intelligent and charming young woman.
Finally, when he could make no further ex-
cuses for tarrying, he drove on.
Maud looked after him as she thought,
'fThe jedge is the kind er man I'd jes like ter
tie to. Dressl guess notl I'd have par
ty dress from Paris, with train as that
winrow. Dad should wear store clothes
week days and I'd buy brother Sam a stove
pipe hat"
And the judge as he rode away was filed
with vague unrest. Though widower
and far past the heyday of life, he wanted
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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

timore has voted down, four to fourteen,
proposed amendment to the rules making
the tenure of teachers permanent during good
behavior
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 10
CENTS WEEK, so GENTS a MONTH, $500
EeR SIX MoSTHs, $500 A YEAR. TIE SAME
TERMS By MAIL.
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EDaEOKIAL NOTES.

The Republican town and city conventions
last evening did their work skillfully and
judiciously. The gentlemen nominated by
them are such as any citizen can cheerfully
vote for.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03
Brain and Nerve Food.
VifaIszad PhnsDhitnS

OIUSWJ VAUtsAANON n N %
Cures all forms of nervous arrangements and all
weaknesses Is used by all physicians who treat
mental or nervous diseases A vital phosphite; not
laboratory phosphate or soda water absurdity.
Druggists 81. Sc WEST Soth STREET.,
nsfeod New York.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

N. BIN q few days Svnta
Claus will be ready in our base
ment with a large assortment Of
Toys, etc., for the children.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

A Mutton and Lamb trust has been re.
vealed by a suit brought by two butchers in
New York city. It appears that the trust
includes about forty firms that are engaged
in slaughtering sheep and lambs or in sup
plying sheep and lambs to slaughterers. It
is a combination of wholesale butchers and
live stock brokers. 1t is asserted that the
butchers in the ring bind themselves to buy
no sheep or lambs from any broker who is
not member, and that the brokers are bound
to sell to no one who is outside of the ring
except at price greater by ffteeneents
head than the ring butchers are required to
pay. The plaintiffs, who are retail butch
ers, undertook to go into the slaughtering
business without entering the Combine, +"
but were unable to make living because of
the discrimination against them. It is said
that this trust or pool controls the trade in
New York, in Brooklyn, and In Hudson
county, N. J.
A story is told in Chicago of Phil Armour
in connection with his $500,000 mission
chapel. He wanted it to be undenomina-
tional and broadly religious. One day he
sent for the preacher who had charge and
said: "You're giving those youngsters too
much grape and canister. He'll FIRE and
birthstone are all right for the old sinners,
but the mission isn't for them. Now, want
you to change around and try another plan.
If you don't you'll drive all those children
away. When you begin your service in the
morning you can read a chapter from the
Bible-something short. Then have little
prayer, something short-not longer than
that"-measuring off about foot with his
forefngers. "Then want you to sing-sing
a good many times. Then tell story, some.
thing with point to it and a moral, but
short. Then you have another little prayer,
but, mind you, no longer than that" holding
up his hands about six inches apart. The
minister said he'd try, and the mission has
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-12-03

N. B.-You will want to visit
our Santa Claus Room in the
basement when ready.
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Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free.
guE SWIFT Co., Drawer s.Atlanta,Ga.
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Bargains i'm every Gine.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-28
eoeron PRODUCE MarIer.
BOSTON. June23. Is87.--rhe following
days quotations OF Provisions, &c.:

BOSTON. June23, 1sB7.--rhe following are TO
days quotations OF Provisions, &C.:
Pork-Long cut 5oa17 90; short cuts 16 so
GIT 90; backs IL O01l7 so; light backs rs 90
lean ends IL o0@l7 go; pork tongues at I5 90
GSlb 30; prime mess at SIG 50G17 90; extra
prime at 10 90; mess, at 16 60117 90.
Lard-ch0ice at 714U712c y ID In tierceS q u C
In lob pals; e1sc IN 6-ib pals; $3.50 in ss-ib
pals.
Hams at I115a12c y III, according to size and
cure; smoked shoulders SG31sc; pressed hams at
Choice city dressed hogs 71sc p n; coun-sryIdo
63zc
Butter Western extra fresh mace creamery
at 2Oc do extra firsts at 1SdI9c; do firsts at l6
al7c; do fresh imitation creamy choice at l6a
17ci dol factory, choice fresh 149I41@c; do far
to good at l2G13c; New York fresh made erin ex
ira at 201ad2lc; do extra firsts at 19d20c, Yer
mont dairy good to choice, 17d1712c; selections
at lS@ls19c; fair to good lots at l4G16c; low
grades OF butter as to quality, The above quota,
ions are receivers prices for strictly wholesale
lots. JObbing prices la2c higher.
Cheese-Northern choice new at S12G9c: new
Ohio choice SA@81lc; of lots Ease; new North
ern sage 9l3c; JOB lots Iac higher.
tgls- Eastern fresh at g; choice Northern at
15e; choice fresh Western at 141a GI5c; Mcb-
igan choice 15Gl 12c: Nova Scotia at bCdI51ac.
JobDing prices L2ldlc higher.
iSeans-IhOlce small n hand picked pea at
] 65a so y hiish; choice New York large hand
picked do s0Gl e5: small Vermont handpicked
pea al IS.
Hay-Choiee prime 8 Goals so; fair to good at
$40 uO9$l6 90; Eastern line $l3a$15ls poor to
ordinary Sl2aSl4: East swale at 10aS12 Rye
straw, choice. 500 001l5 90; Oat straw So
PotaIoes-EXtra Maine Rose, Hebrons. Bur-
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-28
ISLAND sTEAmERs.
FOREST CITY STEAMBOAT co.
WEEK DAY TINE TABLE.

Leave Custom House Wharf for Peaks Island
5.45, ZOO, 300, 1890 am. 49, 10. 10 co. 43O
Go, 7.30 p. m. Returning, leave Peaks Island
so, 725, $50. HOO am. TO- 2.35, $50, 800
6.35. y. m.
Leave Custom House Wharf for Little and Great
diamond, Evergreen and Trefethens 5.45, TOO.
500, 1880 a. m. 2.15, 400, Clio D. m. Return
ing, leave Evergreen 6.1O. Trefethens 6.15. Great
Diamond 6.2O, Little Diamond 625, Evergreen
Diamond 40 a. M
Leave Long Island $40. Evergreen $50, IRE
9.05
= Leave Great Diamond 1850, Evergreen 1885,
Trefethens HOO, Little Diamond IL .05 a. M
Leave Long Island 2.55, Evergreen 3.O5, IRE
iethens $40, Great Diamond 3.15, Little Diamond
3.20ip. m.
Leave Great Diamond 450, Evergreen 4.55,
1reIethens 900, Little Diamond sos p. m.
Leave Great Diamond $50, Evergreen 6.35.
Trefethens GAO. Little Diamond Gas D. m.
Leave Little Diamond 7.45 p. M; Great Dia-
green 500 p. m.
Saturday Night $50 p, M, will be made to
accommodate c0ttagers.
500 a. m. and 2. lJ ID. m goes IN Ion0 Island
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
KERSEYs.

we make our own Light Tall Hats, and keep
more on hand than all the other dealers com.
bined. go dOz. ON our shelves, in every shade.
The Portland daily press., 1887-06-28
HARPSWELL STEAMBOAT co.
Dolish,rui sailc.O miles, Down ca.eo Hay

Delightful SailcsO miles, Down CascO Hay
IN and after JUNE /, 1887, steamer GORDON
~ will leave Custom House Wharf, Portland,
daily, as follows. viz:
For Long Island, Little Chebeague, Hope Is.
i9nd, jerks, East End, Great Cheheague, and
tarpsweu, 1000 q. m, 500 p. m. For Orr's Is
land BOO D. IN.
return for Portland, leave Orr's Island, GIL a.
n Harpswell, Gao a. m, 1.30 p m; East End,
Hope Island * !, % ~ no., Iitte che
Deague, 90 a. M, 2.35 p M; Long Island, $40
a. m, zoo p. m. Arrive Portland $50 a. m, 80
y. m.
SUNDAYS.
For Harpswell, via all landings, 9.45 a. M, 200
u. m.
Return, leave Harpswell for Portland, via all
landings, 80 a. M 345 D. m; arrive Portland,
1.3O and 600 D. IN
Round trip tickets Sundays to IIarpsweI 30
cents; other landings rs cents.
ieldtf ISAIAH DANIELS, Manager.